As European countries continue to restrict gender transition procedures for children, the Biden administration continues to go full speed ahead in the anti-science crusade that it continues to pretend is about facts and evidence.

Rachel Levine, the assistant secretary for health at the Department of Health and Human Services , has been one of the key figures in pushing “gender-affirming care” on children. Levine, who is a biological man who identifies as a woman, said, “As assistant secretary for health, I am urging us to base medical care on facts and medical evidence. Gender-affirming care is medical care. Gender-affirming care is mental healthcare. Gender-affirming care is literally suicide prevention care.”

Levine claims that “decades” of research have shown that “gender-affirming care,” i.e., permanent gender transitions that leave gender-confused children disfigured into their adult lives, are medically necessary for children. Of course, when Levine was serving as a health official in Pennsylvania in 2017, Levine tried to solicit research that reinforced the worldview from a children’s hospital that was already performing gender transitions on minors.

That hospital was not aware of any evidence or research in support of “gender-affirming care” then, despite the fact that it had performed at least 10 gender transitions on minors. Evidently, “decades” of research popped up between now and 2017.

Meanwhile, Finland, France, Sweden, and the United Kingdom have all scaled back their gender transition policies for children over the last couple of years. Europe actually has been providing decades of research on this topic, with a Swedish study spanning 30 years and a Dutch study spanning 45 years, both finding that the suicide rate for transgender people remained the same before and after gender transitions. According to the Dutch study, “the suicide risk in transgender people is higher than in the general population and seems to occur during every stage of transitioning.”

Meanwhile, in the U.S., you can throw a stone and hit five “experts” who will tell you exactly what you want to hear. In this case, the “experts” who transgender activists such as Levine cite include the American Academy of Pediatrics, which exposed itself as a political organization during the COVID-19 pandemic. The AAP thinks you should put your children on drugs and put them under the knife for everything from being transgender to weight loss. Just hand your children over to Big Pharma, and everything will turn out fine.

The “experts” also include the very medical facilities that profit from performing gender transitions on minors. It isn’t hard to imagine where their support is coming from.

Levine and the Biden administration continue to cite these activists as experts in their support of permanently disfiguring children who cannot possibly consent to the permanent changes that gender transitions, puberty blockers, and cross-sex hormones will have on them. Fabricating science through partisan “experts” doesn’t make it “facts and medical evidence.” It simply adds an air of legitimacy to the medical disgrace that the transgender movement is pushing on children.